Varahamihira

Month start and end dates and times for year 2008, based on timezone +08:00 hrs of GMT Month 01 : 07 Feb 2008 11:45:00 - 08 Mar 2008 01:14:40 Month 02 : 08 Mar 2008 01:14:40 - 06 Apr 2008 11:55:42 Month 03 : 06 Apr 2008 11:55:42 - 05 May 2008 20:18:37 Month 04 : 05 May 2008 20:18:37 - 04 Jun 2008 03:22:58 Month 05 : 04 Jun 2008 03:22:58 - 03 Jul 2008 10:19:00 Month 06 : 03 Jul 2008 10:19:00 - 01 Aug 2008 18:12:59 Month 07 : 01 Aug 2008 18:12:59 - 31 Aug 2008 03:58:30 Month 08 : 31 Aug 2008 03:58:30 - 29 Sep 2008 16:12:44 Month 09 : 29 Sep 2008 16:12:44 - 29 Oct 2008 07:14:21 Month 10 : 29 Oct 2008 07:14:21 - 28 Nov 2008 00:55:07 Month 11 : 28 Nov 2008 00:55:07 - 27 Dec 2008 20:22:55 Month 12 : 27 Dec 2008 20:22:55 - 26 Jan 2009 15:55:49

Here is a discussion on Calendar with one of my student. Q: Why do we need a calendar? Student: To watch and follow day to day life, climatic conditions, happenings throughout the world, calender is needed to specify and to remember to correlate for futures. My comments: Yes. Good reasoning. The first calendar was developed to mark the seasonal changes so that right activities can be done in agriculture without missing the season. Again this happened due to the realization that the time is cyclical and astronomical phenomenon such as seasons recur in a cyclical manner. Again they needed to know how much time has passed from a specific event, which is not possible without a calendar. When the civilizations developed, they need to keep track of such events. Anyway, since they were more tuned to the nature, they could see the patterns in seasonal variation such as heavy rains or light rain, hotter summer/ warmer summer etc and they needed a measure of time to mark these patterns with resp...